Wilson Sons dry-docks TechnipFMC vessel at its shipyard in Guarujá

Wilson Sons has entered a new collaborative arrangement with TechnipFMC to dry-dock vessels at its shipyards in Guarujá (São Paulo), in the Port of Santos, Latin America’s leading port facility. The vessel Cábrea Vitória Lift 1, owned by TechnipFMC, a global leader in the offshore energy industry, has been docked at Wilson Sons shipyards for the five yearly dry-docking and maintenance service required to have its Shipping Safety Certification renewed. This is the second dry-docking commissioned by TechnipFMC to Wilson Sons — the previous one took place in 2018.

Dry-docking is a mandatory preventive maintenance task carried out every five years, in which the vessel is taken out of the water for an overhaul. Maintenance on the crane vessel Cábrea Vitória included overhauling gearboxes, pulleys, engines and pumps; cleaning, treating and painting the hull and tanks; substituting anodes; structural repairing, servicing the cooling system (piping) of the main engines; and inspecting valves and wire ropes used to hoist cargo.

Cábrea Vitória has a 400-ton lifting capacity. It loads and unloads steel coils in Vitória, in Espírito Santo. The dry-docking lasted one month and was completed in March, with the support of Wilson Sons tugboats to move the crane barge into the dry dock.

While the vessel was in dry dock, about 100 Wilson Sons employees were directly and indirectly involved in the services, including technicians, engineers, welders, painters and other specialised personnel.

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